die Kindheit
Meaning in English: childhood
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In meiner Kindheit haben wir auf dem Land gewohnt.
When I was a child we lived in the countryside.
Der, die or das?
Kindheit is feminine: die Kindheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kindheit?
Kindheit is number 4,480 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,476kehrtreturns (zurück); sweeps
- 4,477Verbesserungenimprovements
- 4,478warfthrew
- 4,479befreiento free, to liberate
- 4,480die Kindheitchildhood
- 4,481verantwortlicheresponsible, in charge
- 4,482der Hasshatred, hate
- 4,483regeltregulates, sorts out
- 4,484fünftefifth
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,480
- The most common German nouns#1,950
- German A2 vocabulary#901
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#636
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.